WO2023095776A1 - サポートプログラム及び印刷システム - Google Patents

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WO2023095776A1
WO2023095776A1 PCT/JP2022/043135 JP2022043135W WO2023095776A1 WO 2023095776 A1 WO2023095776 A1 WO 2023095776A1 JP 2022043135 W JP2022043135 W JP 2022043135W WO 2023095776 A1 WO2023095776 A1 WO 2023095776A1
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  • the present invention relates to a support program for assisting a general-purpose printing program pre-installed in an operating system of an information processing device, and a printing system equipped with the information processing device.
  • Patent Literature 1 there is known a technique of executing processing regarding resolution related to image quality of the printer in a printer driver installed in an information processing device connected to the printer.
  • OS operating system of the information processing device
  • the printer cannot obtain print data suitable for each printer, so it is difficult to achieve the desired print quality.
  • the printer is equipped with an advanced function that achieves the desired print quality based on the print data generated by the general-purpose print program, the problem can be improved to some extent.
  • the present invention provides a support program executable by a computer of an information processing device and used for printing in a printing device connected to the information processing device,
  • printing capability information acquisition processing for acquiring printing capability information of the printing device from the printing device, setting input reception processing for accepting input of print quality settings corresponding to the printing capability information, and setting input reception processing a correction mode determination process for determining a corresponding data correction mode based on the acceptance result of the information processing apparatus;
  • a print output data generation process for generating print output data corrected based on the data correction mode from the intermediate print data to be output to the printing device; and transmitting the print output data to the printing device.
  • an output process for outputting so as to be transmitted from the information processing device as the above.
  • the support program of the present invention performs printing capability information acquisition processing, setting input reception processing, correction mode determination processing, intermediate print data acquisition processing, data correction processing, print output data generation processing, and output processing. Execute.
  • printing capability information acquisition processing printing capability information that is capability information of a printing device actually connected to the information processing device is acquired, and in setting input acceptance processing, print quality settings corresponding to the printing capability information are accepted from the user, and A corresponding data correction mode is determined by a correction mode determination process based on the acceptance result.
  • the support program acquires the intermediate print data from the general-purpose print program preinstalled in the operating system of the information processing apparatus, and converts the intermediate print data to the determined data in the data correction process. Based on the correction mode, printout data to be output to a printing device is generated, and the printout data is output to the printing device in an output process.
  • the support program of the present invention provides print output that can be directly processed by the printing device according to the contents of the print quality setting, based on the intermediate print data acquired from the general-purpose print program, when executing driverless printing based on the general-purpose print program. It can perform the original process of generating data. Then, the support program, before generating the print output data, determines the data correction mode by reflecting the printing capability information specific to the model of the printing device and the result of receiving the input regarding the print quality desired by the user. Generate print output data based on All of the above processes are executed on the information processing apparatus side, so there is no processing burden on the printing apparatus side, and an increase in cost can be suppressed.
  • the present invention provides a printing system having a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus having a control unit and a communication I/F capable of communicating with the printing apparatus,
  • the control unit of the information processing device executes printing capability information request processing for transmitting a printing capability information request requesting printing capability information of the printing device to the printing device, and the printing device responds to the printing capability information request.
  • control unit of the information processing device executes printing capability information transmission processing for transmitting the printing capability information of the printing device to the information processing device, and the control unit of the information processing device further performs printing capability information reception processing for receiving and acquiring the printing capability information; setting input acceptance processing for accepting input of print quality settings corresponding to the printing capability information; an intermediate print data acquisition process for acquiring intermediate print data from a general-purpose print program preinstalled in an operating system of the information processing apparatus; A print output data generation process for generating print output data for output to the printing device, which has been corrected based on the data correction mode, and a print output data transmission process for transmitting the print output data to the printing device. Execute.
  • FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an overall schematic configuration of a printing system according to one embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining data handled by various programs and print quality settings
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing examples of a plurality of capability setting correlation tables stored in a storage device
  • FIG. 4 is a sequence flow representing processing executed by a user, an editing application, a general-purpose print program, an auxiliary program, and a printer in an embodiment
  • FIG. 10 is a flow showing an internal procedure of ST170 when image processing is included as a mode of correction together with print resolution
  • FIG. 10 is a sequence flow when bitmap data is acquired from a general-purpose printing program
  • FIG. 10 is a sequence flow when reflecting processing capacity information of a general-purpose printing program
  • FIG. 1 shows a printing system to which a support program according to one embodiment of the invention is applied.
  • This embodiment is an embodiment of a printing system 1 that causes a printer to print edited data edited by a user using an editing application on a general-purpose personal computer.
  • this printing system 1 includes a general-purpose personal computer 100 and a printer 200. As shown in FIG. These general-purpose personal computer 100 and printer 200 are connected via a cable 300 and can communicate with each other.
  • a general-purpose personal computer 100 (hereinafter referred to as PC 100) has a CPU 110, a storage device 120, a display section 140, an operation section 150, and a communication interface 160 (abbreviated as "communication IF" in the figure). there is The CPU 110 , storage device 120 , display section 140 , operation section 150 and communication interface 160 are connected to each other via a bus 190 . Note that the general-purpose personal computer 100 is an example of an information processing apparatus.
  • the storage device 120 includes, for example, ROM, RAM, and non-volatile memory, and stores an OS 121 including a general-purpose printing program 122, an auxiliary program 123, and an editing application 124.
  • the auxiliary program 123 is an example of a support program
  • the editing application 124 is an example of an editing application program.
  • the OS 121 is system software, such as Microsoft Windows (registered trademark), MacOS (registered trademark), Linux (registered trademark), etc., that manages the operation of the PC 100 .
  • the storage device 120 stores various types of data including edited data edited by the editing application 124, information on the connected printer 200, and various programs such as a browser, in addition to the illustrated ones.
  • Storage device 120 may be, for example, a computer-readable storage medium (tangible or non-tangible).
  • the general-purpose print program 122, auxiliary program 123, editing application 124, and data handled by these programs will be described in detail later.
  • the CPU 110 is a device that executes programs and processes data. By executing various programs stored in the storage device 120, the CPU 110 executes various processes including data communication with the printer 200 connected via the cable 300, as shown in FIG. Note that the auxiliary programs 123 and the like in the storage device 120 and the CPU 110 that executes them are an example of the control section of the information processing apparatus. Also, the CPU 110 is an example of a computer and an example of a processor.
  • the display unit 140 and the operation unit 150 are hardware that performs various displays and accepts user instruction input. It may be a combination of a functional display and a keyboard, mouse, or the like having an input reception function.
  • the communication interface 160 is, for example, a wired LAN interface for communicating with the printer 200 via the cable 300, a wireless LAN interface, a USB interface, or the like. Note that this communication interface 160 is an example of a communication I/F.
  • the printer 200 includes a CPU, a memory, a printing unit, and a communication interface (not shown). Among them, the CPU transmits and receives various information to and from the PC 100 via the cable 300, and based on the print output data received from the PC 100, the CPU causes the printing section to print an image on paper in a predetermined manner. Note that the printer 200 is an example of a printing device.
  • the editing application 124 in the example of this embodiment is an application program for editing and printing out document data, image data, spreadsheet data, and the like.
  • a specific editing application 124 for example, Microsoft's Word (registered trademark), Excel (registered trademark), PowerPoint (registered trademark), and other vendor-made applications that output data are assumed.
  • the editing application 124 receives data display on the display unit 140 as well as a data content editing operation from the user via the operation unit 150 and a print instruction for causing the printer 200 to print the edited data content.
  • the general-purpose print program 122 in the example of this embodiment is a print program standardly installed in the OS 121, which is the operating system of the PC 100, and is used commonly by printer vendors.
  • the general-purpose print program 122 can generate print output data and output it to the printer 200 without using a printer vendor's own printer driver that specializes in print control of the printer 200 connected to the PC 100, in a so-called driverless environment. configure.
  • driverless environment configure
  • the auxiliary program 123 corresponding to the printer 200 is installed in the PC 100 and used before starting to use printing.
  • the auxiliary program 123 acquires PDL data in vector format (for example, XPS format) from the general-purpose print program 122 as intermediate print data, and based on the commands and parameters contained in it, and corresponding to the printer 200 or printer vendor. It functions to convert the entirety of each printed page into bitmap data in raster format by rasterizing it according to its own quality settings. Then, header information including appropriate supplementary information is added to the bitmap data to generate raster format PDL data (for example, data conforming to the PWGRaster standard) as print output data, and output to the printer 200 .
  • PDL data for example, data conforming to the PWGRaster standard
  • the auxiliary program 123 obtains in advance the printing capability information including the resolution from the connected printer 200, and based on the printing capability information, the set value is selected from the selectable resolutions. , the above-described rasterizing process is executed to generate raster-format PDL data, which is print output data.
  • the resolution information included in the printing capability information is an example of the resolution information.
  • the auxiliary program 123 of this embodiment allows the user to arbitrarily select and set which print quality to use for paper printing based on the printing capability information acquired from the printer 200 .
  • each model has a resolution of 1200, 600, 400, 300, 200, or 150 (dpi) as printing capability information. Assume that printing is possible. As shown in FIG.
  • the printer 200 is provided with a capability setting correlation table in which the resolutions included in the printing capability information acquired from the printer 200 are assigned the level names of the print quality settings of "High”, “Normal”, and "Draft".
  • the auxiliary program 123 stores them in the storage device 120 in association with each other.
  • the capability setting correlation table is an example of the correlation between the printing capability information and the print quality setting accepted in the setting input acceptance process
  • the storage device 120 is an example of the storage unit.
  • the auxiliary program 123 allows the user to select the print quality setting, based on the above-described stored capability setting correlation table, the level name of the print quality setting is displayed instead of the numerical value of the resolution for the user to select.
  • the resolution of the print quality corresponding to the level name selected by the user is determined as a data correction mode, and the bitmap data is rasterized so as to be corrected to that resolution. conduct.
  • the resolution determined as the data correction mode is an example of the data resolution and the print resolution.
  • Control procedure> An example of a control procedure for realizing the processing method of the auxiliary program 123 in this embodiment will be described with reference to the sequence chart of FIG. Note that this example of the control procedure will be described on the assumption that the above-mentioned driverless environment is used and that the printer 200 performs paper printing. A description will be made on the assumption that the user instructs the printer 200 to print on paper with the print quality arbitrarily set for the resolution and the like. Further, the processes of the editing application 124, the general-purpose printing program 122, and the auxiliary program 123 shown in the drawing are executed in parallel by the CPU 110 of the PC 100 by appropriate time-division interrupts or appropriate core allocation.
  • the auxiliary program 123 requests printing capability information from the printer 200 in ST5, and the printer 200 sends the printing capability information to the auxiliary program in ST10. Reply to 123.
  • the auxiliary program 123 can acquire printing capability information related to print quality such as resolution in advance before actually performing processing related to paper printing on the printer 200 .
  • the procedure of ST5 is an example of printing capability information request processing
  • the procedure of ST10 is an example of printing capability information transmission processing and printing capability information receiving processing
  • the procedures of ST5 and ST10 are examples of printing capability information acquisition processing. is.
  • an operation (specifically, an operation of selecting the "print” menu, etc.) to instruct the printing is given to the editing application 124 in ST105. to run.
  • the editing application 124 uses general-purpose setting items that can be handled by the general-purpose printing program 122, such as paper size selection, number of copies to be printed, and pages to be printed.
  • the print screen to be accepted is displayed on the display unit 140 .
  • the editing application 124 transmits a detailed setting instruction to the general-purpose printing program 122 in ST120, and the general-purpose printing program 122 is selected in ST125.
  • a detailed setting request is sent to the auxiliary program 123 corresponding to the printer 200 .
  • the auxiliary program 123 refers to the capability setting correlation table corresponding to the resolution, etc. included in the printing capability information acquired in ST10, and selects "High” and “Normal” assigned to the capability setting correlation table. , and "Draft” are displayed as a detailed setting screen.
  • the procedure of ST130 is an example of the print quality setting display process.
  • the procedures of ST5 and ST10 for the auxiliary program 123 to acquire the printing capability information of the printer 200 are not limited to the timing immediately after the connection of the printer 200 as described above, but when the detail setting request in ST125 is received. You can go to
  • the user selects the level name of the print quality setting from "High”, “Normal”, and “Draft” via the print quality setting screen in ST135, thereby setting the print quality related to the resolution of paper printing. It can be performed. Also, at this time, the resolution corresponding to the level name selected by the user is determined as a data correction mode when correcting the bitmap data in the later-described rasterization process. It should be noted that the procedure of ST135 is an example of the setting input acceptance process and the correction mode determination process.
  • the print quality setting information set in this manner is relayed to the general-purpose print program 122 in ST140, transmitted to the editing application 124 in ST145, and waits for the final print instruction.
  • the procedure of ST140 is an example of the setting acceptance result notification process.
  • the editing application 124 124 transmits to the general-purpose print program 122 the information of the print execution instruction, the edit data which is the print content edited by the edit application 124 , and the print quality setting information.
  • general-purpose print program 122 In response to this, general-purpose print program 122 generates intermediate print data in ST160.
  • This intermediate print data is PDL data in which the print contents of the received edited data are described in the above-described vector format page description language (XPS as an example).
  • the general-purpose print program 122 then transmits this intermediate print data and print quality setting information in ST165, and the auxiliary program 123 acquires them. Note that the procedure of ST165 is an example of the intermediate print data acquisition process.
  • the auxiliary program 123 performs rasterization processing on the intermediate print data, which is PDL data in vector format, in ST170 to convert it into bitmap data in raster format.
  • the corrected print intermediate data is obtained by correcting it with the resolution corresponding to the contents of the received print quality setting information.
  • the capability setting correlation table selected in ST130 is referred to, and the resolution and the like corresponding to the level name of one of "High”, “Normal”, and "Draft" selected by the user in ST135 is set. rasterize the bitmap data so as to correct the
  • the procedure of ST170 is an example of data correction processing.
  • the corrected intermediate print data obtained in this way is still simply bitmap data. Therefore, in ST180, the auxiliary program 123 further adds header information including appropriate supplementary information to the corrected intermediate print data so that the printer 200 can directly print the raster format PDL data (PWGRaster data in this example). Generate as print output data that can be processed. Then, the auxiliary program 123 outputs the print output data to the printer 200 in the next step ST185, so that the page can be printed at the resolution selected by the user from among the printing capabilities of the printer 200.
  • the procedures of ST170 and ST180 are an example of print output data generation processing, and the procedure of ST185 is an example of output processing and print output data transmission processing.
  • the auxiliary program 123 executes the procedures of ST5 and ST10, the procedure of ST135, the procedure of ST165, the procedures of ST170, ST180, and the procedure of ST185. do.
  • the procedures of ST5 and ST10 the printing capability information of the printer 200 actually connected to the PC 100 is acquired, and in the procedure of ST135, the print quality setting corresponding to the printing capability information is received from the user, and the response is made based on the acceptance result. Decide how to correct the data.
  • the auxiliary program 123 acquires intermediate print data from the general-purpose print program 122 preinstalled in the OS 121 of the PC 100 in the procedure of ST165, and corrects the intermediate print data as determined above in the procedures of ST170 and ST180. Based on the mode, print output data for output to printer 200 is generated, and the print output data is output to printer 200 in the procedure of ST185.
  • the auxiliary program 123 of this embodiment directly processes the intermediate print data acquired from the general-purpose printing program 122 by the printer 200 according to the content of the print quality setting. The original process of generating possible print output data can be performed. Then, the auxiliary program 123 determines the data correction mode by reflecting the printing capability information specific to the model of the printer 200 and the result of accepting the input regarding the print quality desired by the user before generating the print output data. , to generate printout data based on this. All of the above processes are executed on the PC 100 side, so there is no processing burden on the printer 200 side, and an increase in cost can be suppressed.
  • the CPU 110 and the auxiliary program 123 further execute the procedure of ST170 to correct the intermediate print data based on the data correction mode to obtain corrected intermediate print data.
  • Print output data for output to the printer 200 is generated based on the print data. In this way, by processing in a page description language, processing is easier than raster data, and an increase in processing time can be reduced.
  • the print quality setting in the procedure of ST135 is performed.
  • the procedure of ST140 for notifying the general-purpose printing program 122 of the acceptance result of the procedure of ST135 is executed. Get data.
  • the auxiliary program 123 acquires print intermediate data corresponding to the result of acceptance in the procedure of ST135 described above from the general-purpose print program 122, and can generate print output data based thereon, so that it can meet the user's request for print quality. can be done.
  • the PC 100 is also equipped with a storage device 120 that stores at least one capability setting correlation table representing the correlation between the printing capability information of the printer 200 and the print quality settings accepted in the procedure of ST135.
  • the auxiliary program 123 refers to the capability setting correlation table stored in the storage device 120 and determines the corresponding data correction mode for the print quality setting received from the user.
  • the correlation tables of the acceptance results of the printing capability information and the print quality settings can be prepared in advance for each of the plurality of models. By doing so, it is possible to deal with general purpose.
  • the printing capability information is the printing resolution information of the printer 200, and in the procedure of ST135, the data resolution corresponding to the printing resolution information is determined as the data correction mode based on the reception result of the printing quality setting. .
  • the procedure of ST165 intermediate print data generated in the vector format by the general-purpose printing program 122 in response to the reception result of the print quality setting notified in the procedure of ST140 is acquired.
  • the auxiliary program 123 converts the acquired intermediate print data in the vector format into the raster format in the procedure of ST170. be intermediate print data.
  • the data resolution arbitrarily set and input by the user can be determined as the data correction mode.
  • the auxiliary program 123 converts the intermediate print data in vector format obtained from the general-purpose print program 122 into raster format suitable for processing by the printer 200
  • the auxiliary program 123 converts the print resolution reflecting the printing capability of the printer 200 and the settings of the user. etc. can be corrected.
  • the general-purpose printing program 122 converts the data into the vector format for the intermediate printing of the edited data edited by the predetermined editing application 124 preinstalled in the OS 121 of the PC 100. Get it as data.
  • the edited data edited by the general editing application 124 can be universally applied as a print target, and the print quality can be improved.
  • ⁇ Modification 1 When determining the data correction mode including the image processing mode>, the case where the data resolution corresponding to the print resolution is applied as a mode of data correction when the auxiliary program 123 performs rasterization processing on intermediate print data in vector format has been described. On the other hand, other image processing modes such as gradation processing and edge enhancement processing may also be determined as data correction modes.
  • correction is performed at the print resolution corresponding to the print quality setting set by the user at the time of rasterization, and only when the print quality setting is relatively high, for example, "High”. It is preferable to perform necessary correction of image processing at the same time.
  • a processing mode when correction is performed by such image processing it is preferable to determine a mode of image processing that is suitable for each region having different print contents. Specifically, when the print quality setting is, for example, "High”, blurring processing, which is particularly required for image areas, and edge enhancement processing, which is particularly required for character areas, are performed. It may be determined as an image processing mode.
  • ST170 executed by the auxiliary program 123 may be executed according to the internal procedure shown in FIG. 5, for example.
  • auxiliary program 123 converts the intermediate print data into raster format at a resolution corresponding to the print quality setting information in ST171. Perform rasterization. After that, the auxiliary program 123 determines whether the content of the print quality setting information is "High" in ST172.
  • the range of the image area in the rasterized data is specified, and at ST174, blurring processing is performed on the image area.
  • the range of the character area in the rasterized data is specified, and in ST176, edge enhancement processing is performed on the character area.
  • known methods such as raster scanning and predetermined matrix processing may be used, and the details thereof are omitted here. Then, the procedure of ST170 is terminated, and the process proceeds to the next ST180 (not shown).
  • the auxiliary program 123 also determines the image processing mode corresponding to the acceptance result in the procedure of ST135 as the data correction mode.
  • the auxiliary program 123 performs blurring processing (processing suitable for photographic images, etc.) and edge enhancement processing (processing suitable for character images, etc.) according to the reception result in the procedure of ST135. is applied to determine the image processing mode. Specifically, when the received result corresponds to a relatively high print quality setting, blurring processing is determined as the image processing mode for the image area in the intermediate print data, and Edge enhancement processing is determined as an image processing mode for the character area in .
  • the image area such as a photograph in the intermediate data is corrected by blurring processing, and the text in the intermediate data is corrected.
  • Character areas such as data are corrected by edge enhancement processing.
  • print quality settings individual level names are assigned to a plurality of print resolution stages acquired from the printer 200, and the user is made to select them. Correspondingly, whether or not to correct the image processing was also determined.
  • the image processing itself is also interpreted as an element of print quality, and print quality settings can be set in various combinations of multiple print resolution levels, image processing correction modes, and whether or not they are applied.
  • a capability setting correlation table is created so that the level name of "High” corresponds to "600 dpi + image processing", and the level name of "Normal” corresponds to "600 dpi + no image processing", It may be referred to during rasterization processing or correction.
  • ⁇ Modification 2 Acquisition of bitmap data from a general-purpose print program>
  • the rasterization process executed by the auxiliary program 123 was performed only on intermediate print data in vector format obtained from the general-purpose print program 122 .
  • the general-purpose printing program 122 also generates raster-format bitmap data based on the print quality settings received in advance in ST140, together with the vector-format intermediate print data. Then, the auxiliary program 123 that acquires both of them may correct the printing intermediate data using the bitmap data.
  • the general-purpose printing program 122 transmits intermediate printing data in vector format to the auxiliary program 123 in ST165
  • raster format bitmap data based on the print quality setting is also sent to the auxiliary program in ST167.
  • the auxiliary program 123 corrects the print intermediate data using the received bitmap data in ST170.
  • the procedure of ST167 is an example of bitmap data acquisition processing.
  • the auxiliary program 123 acquires from the general-purpose print program 122 the bitmap data corresponding to the data resolution notified in the procedure of ST140 in the procedure of ST167, and the intermediate print data in the procedure of ST170. Correct using bitmap data.
  • the intermediate print data in the vector format is converted to the raster format in the data correction in the procedure of ST170, the correction using the bitmap data corresponding to the data resolution can be performed, so that the print quality can be further improved.
  • the print quality setting by the auxiliary program 123 is set by the content selected by the user from the print capability information acquired from the printer 200 .
  • the print quality setting is not limited to this, and the print quality setting may reflect the processing capability information that can be handled and processed in the general-purpose printing program 122 .
  • the auxiliary program 123 acquires the printing capability information from the printer 200 in the procedures of ST5 and ST10, it requests the general-purpose printing program 122 for the processing capability information in the procedure of ST15. , and acquires the processing capacity information returned from the general-purpose printing program 122 in the procedure of ST20. Then, the auxiliary program 123 converts the printing capability information into processability information in the procedure of ST20, and then accepts print quality setting corresponding to the processing capability information from the user in the procedure of ST135. Note that the procedure of ST20 is an example of information conversion processing.
  • the auxiliary program 123 converts the printing capability information into processing capability information that can be handled and processed by the general-purpose printing program 122 in the procedure of ST20, and corresponds to the processing capability information in the procedure of ST135. Accepts input for print quality settings.
  • the auxiliary program 123 can convert the printing capability information of the printer 200 so that the processing capability information of the general-purpose printing program 122 is also reflected. It is possible to input print quality settings corresponding to both.
  • printing system 100 general-purpose personal computer (an example of an information processing device) 110 CPU (an example of a computer or processor) 120 storage device (an example of a storage unit) 121 OS (an example of an operating system) 122 General-purpose print program 123 Auxiliary program (an example of a support program) 124 editing apps (an example of editing applications) 140 display unit 150 operation unit 160 communication interface (an example of communication I/F) 200 printer (an example of a printing device)

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